Special Encore Presentation: The Empowered Cancer Patient: Highlights from The Total Cancer Wellness

The premier episode will explore The Wellness Community’s founding principle of the Patient Active™ Concept, which is explained in the book, The Total Cancer Wellness Guide: Reclaiming Your Life After Diagnosis (BenBella Books, 2007), a book co-authored by Kim Thiboldeaux and Mitch Golant, PhD. Guests will discuss the benefits of patients taking an active role in managing their cancer care during treatment and beyond. They include Matthew Loscalzo, MSW, Administrative Director for the Sheri and Les Biller Patient and Family Resource Center; Lidia Schapira, MD, Oncologist at the Gillette Center for Breast Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Assistant Professor of Medicine at the Harvard Medical School; and Douglas Wilkey, Jr., non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma survivor and participant at The Wellness Community-Arizona.